Charles Ichabod Wright

Not to be confused with Ichabod Charles Wright.

Charles Ichabod Wright (18 September 1828 – 9 May 1905)[1] was a British banker and Conservative[2] politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1870.

Photo of Charles Ichabod Wright, with inscription on back to Major Cecil Collins dated 1896.

Wright was born at Bramcote, Nottinghamshire the son of the scholar Ichabod Charles Wright and his wife Theodosia Denman. He was educated at Windlesham House School, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[3][4] His great grandfather founded a bank[5] and Wright became a banker in the firm of I and IC Wright & Co.[4][6] He also served for many years as a volunteer in Robin Hood Rifles, of which he became lieutenant colonel.[5] He was also a J.P. for Nottinghamshire.[4]

Wright was elected as one of the two Member of Parliament (MPs) for the constituency of Nottingham[7] at the 1868 general election.[2] He resigned from parliament in 1870,[8] due to ill health,[citation needed] by the procedural device of accepting the appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[8]

In 1871 Wright was living at Heathfield Hall, Burwash, Sussex where his father died.[9] Wright owned Watcombe Park between Newton Abbot and Torquay (now known as Brunel Manor) where he and his family were living in 1881.[6] Later he was living at Hartendale Frensham Surrey, where he died at the age of 76.[5] He was buried at the church of St Thomas on the Bourne Farnham.

Wright married Blanche Louise Bingham, eldest daughter of Henry Bingham, in 1852.[4]

  1. ^ Wildings & Thurleys, Cantophers & McConnells
  2. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 229. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  3. ^ Malden, Henry C. (1902). Muster Roll. Windlesham House, Brighton. A.D. 1837 to 1902 (2nd ed.). Brighton: H. & C. Treacher.
  4. ^ a b c d Debretts Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
  5. ^ a b c "Robert Mellors Men and Women of the District". Nottinghamshire History. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  6. ^ a b British Census 1881 RG11 2170/57 P37
  7. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 4)
  8. ^ a b Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  9. ^ Ichabod Charles Wright, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography